evil typewriter

lurking in your general direction

[darthunderwood]

But I didn't like it

The Buddha was vibrating against the window

It made a pretty weird sound

I tried to listen to new music today

[darthunderwood]

Compression

The promise of exhalation endures

desperate to be rid of the air that scars my lungs

that leaves seared veins in their flesh

each breath intended to relieve the ache

only to compound the issue

And around me the air holds no fear

[darthunderwood]

Leap Year

Midpoints always signal ends

The way a beginning sparks

the final unfolding

the way an intake of breath cannot be held

eternally

the promise of exhalation endures

#poem #poetry #poetryyoufuckers

[darthunderwood]

Buson

Every culture makes

The same joke about chestnut

Trees and their perfume

[eirianerisdar]

I’ve got a really important question

Has anyone ever knitted Obi-Wan Kenobi a jumper

I mean like a jumper. A really fluffy, bantha-wool jumper.  Because I’ve never seen anyone who needs a jumper more than Obi-Wan Kenobi.

It’s like he won’t hug anyone so at least the jumper can hug him when he loses his cloak again

[toughlovemuse]

Hey @meggory84, does Qui-Gon knit?

[meggory84]

HE DOES NOW

[scarletjedi]

I’m cutting in to say that I don’t know if Qui-Gon is a knitter so much as he was forced to learn as a padawan to teach patience, and abandoned the practice as soon as he could. (Though, I could see him trying to re-learn the skill as an adult, in a world where he loves or comes back, swearing at 2am as he drops *another* stitch. Obi-Wan finds him slumped over in the morning. He’s very touched when he receives a misshapen but soft and warm jumper).

I do think Anakin crochets, however.

[meggory84]

I love it. I also love the idea of Qui-Gon as a good process knitter, using the stitches as an exercise in patience, but who has NEVER ONCE checked gauge. He only uses one sweater pattern, and the final meditation is to find the one person in the Temple who fits his misshapen monstrosity before casting on the next one

[scarletjedi]

That is amazing and I love everything about it

[darthunderwood]

It's always been my headcannon that Qui Gon is an excellent technical knitter and infact knits true lace on tiny needles using cobweb yarn spun from the undercoat of yearling tauntauns. Also there is only one group in the universe who can get away with not swatching and still hit gauge and that's the Jedi.

[darthunderwood]

14 / 29

your anger is carbon

charred remains

an element so common

the diamonds you formed

the pressure alone gave them their rarity

my shame is nacre

flowing light

an element so prized

the pearls I grew

a process common to all my kind

accretion and compression

learning and unlearning

pathways into the noise of being

[darthunderwood]

Yeah, but Bukowski never went to Paris

Chery cola and

Wine is the poor man's kir royale

Perfect for week nights

[darthunderwood]

The Cutter

If you really were porcelain

I could pull you up between my fingers

Cold and dry to the touch

Cold and dry, like meat hung

In a locker flesh on bone and hook

Flesh like wood sliced across the grain

Grain scattered in a park

Empty stone bench across from the pond

Birds forgotten in the stormy sky

Birds in the sky, birds in the water

Birds in my hair like a thicket

Empty white sky like porcelain

[darthunderwood]

Last Night at the Bar

Bumping along beside you on Bloor St

Pavement bending with the force of my tread

arms cast in glass, cast in resin

hands so firmly in pockets

The clear trajectory of our night

a sharp line of geese over infinite prairie

suddenly radiates, reduplicates, unravels

blurs out of focus

suddenly envelopes me in

beating wings, fat birds like feathery hearts

lost within a cloud insubstantial

unknowable and totally affecting

No objects vibrate at the correct frequency

All atoms out of place

Trumpeters finish their discourse

I let it go

Downed my negroni

And called it a night.

[darthunderwood]

Summer

Tight sandals like

a fist around my heart.

How do I know?

Oh, paper.

And some weird Buddhist cooking thing.

[darthunderwood]

The Empty Space Where A Bird Should Be

Not like a bird for ( )

Not to write black lines in a ( )

This wire's for cutting.